Also:
Mosul liberated as Islamic State faces
total defeat in Iraq(Sydney Morning Herald) July 10 - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived in Mosul to declare it
liberated from Islamic State, three years after the city’s abrupt fall to the
jihadists alerted the world to the group’s growing strength, territorial
ambitions and barbarity.

The battle for Mosul is won. But with Isis
defeated, can Iraqis unite? (The
Guardian, Australia) July 11 – (Opinion: Jonathan Steele) It is widely accepted that Islamic State’s
defeat in Mosul, declared this weekend, ends a battle but not a war, and that
the group’s thousands of jihadi supporters could turn in revenge to targeted
suicide bombings in the west as well as in cities in Iraq and Syria.